On Wednesday, Cambridge-based marketing firm HubSpot announced that it had fired its chief marketing officer Mike Volpe for violating the company’s ethics code. Full coverage of this story can be found at the links below.More →

DraftKings is now the exclusive daily fantasy sports partner for 27 of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. MLB is also an investor in DraftKings, which recently raised a $300 million fundraising round.More →

Indochino’s 1,450-square-foot store on Newbury Street is set up to reflect the suit-making process, with areas to take measurements, choose fabrics, and select custom options. In total, the company has six locations, all of them opened in the past year.More →

Temple & Webster will take over the Australian segment for Boston-based Wayfair, which went public in 2014. The home-goods retailer didn’t say how much the transaction was worth, but said it was focusing on North America and Europe.More →

Word of the latest mega-financing round for the ride-for-hire company comes via The Wall Street Journal, which says that Uber raised close to $1 billion in the round, bringing its total funding to more than $5 billion.More →

SimpliVity, a digital infrastructure supplier, was already valued at more than $1 billion in its last private fundraising round. Today, chief executive Doron Kempel tells Bloomberg that the company plans to be ready for an initial public offering by the end of next year.More →

People of a certain age remember Green Stamps—little coupons, good for discounts or free swag, that consumers would receive at the supermarket checkout line. Now a Boston doctor is reviving the concept in a bid to make physical fitness pay off.More →

Less than 24 hours after the Cambridge marketing firm HubSpot dropped a cryptic press release announcing that they had fired an executive for ethics lapses, HubSpot chief executive Brian Halligan said that the chief marketing officer in question, Mike Volpe, had engaged in “some really aggressive tactics” to try to get a copy of the manuscript to a forthcoming book by a former HubSpot employee. But Halligan wouldn’t reveal much more, saying that company attorneys had advised him not to describe what exactly those tactics were — even to the company’s employees, whom he addressed in an 11 a.m. meeting on Thursday.More →

On Wednesday evening, startup accelerator MassChallenge unveiled the companies participating in its 2015 class in a showcase at the Seaport Hotel in Boston. The event drew a crowd of over a thousand people interested in speaking with the 128 startups that make up this year’s Boston cohort.More →

An executive shakeup at software company HubSpot didn’t seem to worry investors, who left the company’s stock largely unchanged Thursday after disclosures that HubSpot’s marketing chief was fired for trying to obtain an unpublished book manuscript about the company.More →